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[Slashcode-general] Re: newbie question

[Nomad M. L. <er...@no...>]

Thanks for the help.

I now have two slash sites running on one machine, now comes the fun part.

--Eric


On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Nomad Media Lab wrote:

> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:40:45 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Nomad Media Lab <er...@no...>
> To: sla...@li...
> Subject: newbie question
>
>
> OK,
>
> After much fighting, and manual reading, I got slash to install. But when
> I hit the site, all I get is a blank page. The source of which reads:
>
>
> <!-- start template: ID , header;; -->
>
> <!-- end template: ID , header;; -->
>
> <!-- start template: ID , index;; -->
>
> <!-- end template: ID , index;; -->
>
> and that's it.
> Nothing else.
>
> Can anyone clue me into where I should start in trying to fix this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Eric
>
>



---------------------------------
Nomad Media Lab
design + technology consulting
http://www.nomadlab.com

Re: [Slashcode-general] newbie question

[Alvaro d. C. <ac...@ba...>]

El 12 Jun 2001 13:34:32 -0400, Nomad Media Lab escribió:
> > >
> > > OK,
> > >
> > > After much fighting, and manual reading, I got slash to install. But when
> > > I hit the site, all I get is a blank page. The source of which reads:
> > >
> > >
> > > <!-- start template: ID , header;; -->
> > >
> > > <!-- end template: ID , header;; -->
> > >
> > > <!-- start template: ID , index;; -->
> > >
> > > <!-- end template: ID , index;; -->
> > >
> > > and that's it.
> > > Nothing else.
> > >
> > > Can anyone clue me into where I should start in trying to fix this?
> >
> > It seems that the templates are not in the database. Can you check it?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > -- Alvaro
> >
> 
> Thanks.
> I checked and somehow all the templates are not in the database. Some are,
> some are not. If I call /search.pl I get part of a page, as the
> storysearch;search;default template is there, but most of the others are
> not).
> What is the best way to recreate the templates database table without
> having to reinstall the slashsite? or is this a symptom of a larger
> problem and I should start over from the beginning?

Yes, this is a bad start. Maybe I try to install all from scratch. It is
very quickly.

You can use the template-tool tool to insert very easly the templates in
the database.

Good  Luck!

-- Alvaro

> 
> Thanks again for the help.
> 
> 
> --Eric
> 
> 
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Re: [Slashcode-general] newbie question

[Nomad M. L. <er...@no...>]

> >
> > OK,
> >
> > After much fighting, and manual reading, I got slash to install. But when
> > I hit the site, all I get is a blank page. The source of which reads:
> >
> >
> > <!-- start template: ID , header;; -->
> >
> > <!-- end template: ID , header;; -->
> >
> > <!-- start template: ID , index;; -->
> >
> > <!-- end template: ID , index;; -->
> >
> > and that's it.
> > Nothing else.
> >
> > Can anyone clue me into where I should start in trying to fix this?
>
> It seems that the templates are not in the database. Can you check it?
>
> Cheers
>
> -- Alvaro
>

Thanks.
I checked and somehow all the templates are not in the database. Some are,
some are not. If I call /search.pl I get part of a page, as the
storysearch;search;default template is there, but most of the others are
not).
What is the best way to recreate the templates database table without
having to reinstall the slashsite? or is this a symptom of a larger
problem and I should start over from the beginning?

Thanks again for the help.


--Eric

Re: [Slashcode-general] EVAL_PERL

[Chris N. <pu...@po...>]

At 23:28 +1200 2001.06.12, Simon Wei wrote:
>Does anyone know how to enable the EVAL_PERL option for the template or the
>website in SlashCode V2?

You need to edit the perl code that creates the Template object.

It is not recommended.  If someone gets access to an admin account on your
Slash site, and can eval Perl, they can probably own your box.

For this reason, I'm not going to tell anyone exactly how to enable it.
It's not hard, but if you can handle the security implications, you can
figure out with ease how to enable it.

There's really no good reason to need to enable perl anyway, that I can
think of.  Slash is extensible and you can create plugins to do whatever
you need.

-- 
Chris Nandor                      pu...@po...    http://pudge.net/
Open Source Development Network    pu...@os...     http://osdn.com/

[Slashcode-general] EVAL_PERL

[Simon W. <s....@au...>]

Hi:

My apologies first for some newbie's questions.

Does anyone know how to enable the EVAL_PERL option for the template or the
website in SlashCode V2?

Is there any way to pull from other URL other than XML format? Can we use a
Portald Blocks to Pull a CGI/Mod_Perl script which display HTML tags?
(This will make the migration of the websites into SlashCode much easier...)

Any tips/tricks/information will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Simon Wei

Re: [Slashcode-general] newbie question

[Alvaro d. C. <ac...@ba...>]

El 11 Jun 2001 15:40:45 -0400, Nomad Media Lab escribió:
> 
> OK,
> 
> After much fighting, and manual reading, I got slash to install. But when
> I hit the site, all I get is a blank page. The source of which reads:
> 
> 
> <!-- start template: ID , header;; -->
> 
> <!-- end template: ID , header;; -->
> 
> <!-- start template: ID , index;; -->
> 
> <!-- end template: ID , index;; -->
> 
> and that's it.
> Nothing else.
> 
> Can anyone clue me into where I should start in trying to fix this?

It seems that the templates are not in the database. Can you check it?

Cheers

-- Alvaro

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --Eric
> 
> 
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[Slashcode-general] mod_gzip temporary fix

[Micah Y. <yo...@ho...>]

OK... found this in the mailing list archives.  Simply add the following 
directives to your Slash site's virtual host declaration ...

 mod_gzip_item_exclude reqheader Content-Type:multipart/form-data
 mod_gzip_item_exclude reqheader 
Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Now, this does NOT compress results from POSTed requests, only GETs.  But 
considering the percentage of requests that are POSTed, this is a whole lot 
better than nothing!!!  Would be nice to get compressed POST output too, but 
I'll live with this for now!

mod_gzip absolutely rules!

Re: [Slashcode-general] mod_gzip and slash

[Micah Y. <yo...@ho...>]

> Did they add support for mod_gzip to handle POST?  IF not I have an
> idea on how to fix it (in fact there is a patch in SF the probably
> does).

POSTs seem to work fine in PHP under mod_gzip.  I'll look around on the 
mod_gzip site a bit more...

Re: [Slashcode-general] mod_gzip and slash

[Brian A. <br...@ta...>]

Micah Yoder wrote:
> 
> Has anyone used Slash with mod_gzip?
> 
> Normally my index page is 52K.  With it enabled, it is 5.5K.  That's quite a
> bit of a savings when you're paying for bandwidth.
> 
> Unfortunately, when it is enabled, all POST operations don't work correctly.
> They basically act like GETs to the script, not passing any of the variables.
>  Turning off mod_gzip, they work normally.
Did they add support for mod_gzip to handle POST?  IF not I have an
idea on how to fix it (in fact there is a patch in SF the probably
does).
	-Brian

[Slashcode-general] mod_gzip and slash

[Micah Y. <yo...@ho...>]

Has anyone used Slash with mod_gzip?

Normally my index page is 52K.  With it enabled, it is 5.5K.  That's quite a 
bit of a savings when you're paying for bandwidth.

Unfortunately, when it is enabled, all POST operations don't work correctly.  
They basically act like GETs to the script, not passing any of the variables. 
 Turning off mod_gzip, they work normally.

This is one I wanna resolve.......

Any ideas?
Thanks

Re: [Slashcode-general] Slashd problem

[Micah Y. <yo...@ho...>]

On Monday 11 June 2001 20:12, you wrote:
> Micah Yoder wrote:
> > hmm.  Maybe it's a different problem if you can kill yours.  Mine was
> > completely unkillable and made all processes accessing that log directory
> > hang.
>
> What kernel are you on? I seem to remember something about a
> bug like this in the 2.4.2 kernels (I have upgraded to 2.4.3).
> 	-Brian

Running the kernel that SGI supplied on their CD.  Basically it's the Red Hat 
7.1 kernel, which is 2.4.2 plus a whole bunch of patches that Red Hat claims 
"fixes things".

Now I'm a bit nervous to run slashd again. :-)

I guess I should re-compile the kernel with 2.4.5 + CVS XFS.  That could be 
tricky though, and I'm worried about virtual memory problems in later kernels.

Re: [Slashcode-general] Slashd problem

[Brian A. <br...@ta...>]

Micah Yoder wrote:
> hmm.  Maybe it's a different problem if you can kill yours.  Mine was
> completely unkillable and made all processes accessing that log directory
> hang.
What kernel are you on? I seem to remember something about a
bug like this in the 2.4.2 kernels (I have upgraded to 2.4.3).
	-Brian

Re: [Slashcode-general] Slashd problem

[Micah Y. <yo...@ho...>]

> Not sure, I can kill mine off with ps so I haven't made a big deal of
> ti yet (and this is not happening under Debian, whish is what slashcode
> and use.perl use for production machines).

hmm.  Maybe it's a different problem if you can kill yours.  Mine was 
completely unkillable and made all processes accessing that log directory 
hang.

> > You're not running on XFS are you?
>
> Nope, wish I was though :)

If my problem was an XFS bug then thank your lucky stars you're not running 
it!

Re: [Slashcode-general] Slashd problem

[Brian A. <br...@ta...>]

Micah Yoder wrote:
> hmm.  'grep slash' reads stdin.  Did you mean to pipe ps into it?
Woops, add a ps auwx | before the beginning of that.
 
> >> And why is every process that accesses the log directory turning into a D?
> > Not sure to be honest. This is happening with me on RedHat 7.1, but not
> > 6.2.
> Crap.  So I'm not the only one it's hitting.  That is really strange.  What
> in the world could slashd be doing to make every process that hits its log
> directory hang?  (No, I haven't yet extensively studied the code...)
Not sure, I can kill mine off with ps so I haven't made a big deal of
ti yet (and this is not happening under Debian, whish is what slashcode
and use.perl use for production machines).

> You're not running on XFS are you?
Nope, wish I was though :)

	-Brian

Re: [Slashcode-general] Slashd problem

[Micah Y. <yo...@ho...>]

> > uhh... first of all what are you grepping?
>
> slash (aka the daemon that is running).

hmm.  'grep slash' reads stdin.  Did you mean to pipe ps into it?

>> And why is every process that accesses the log directory turning into a D?
> Not sure to be honest. This is happening with me on RedHat 7.1, but not
> 6.2.

Crap.  So I'm not the only one it's hitting.  That is really strange.  What 
in the world could slashd be doing to make every process that hits its log 
directory hang?  (No, I haven't yet extensively studied the code...)

My test system at home has never done that.  But I don't leave it on all 
night.  This started happening sometime last night on my server, after it was 
up a day and a half.

You're not running on XFS are you?

Re: [Slashcode-general] Slashd problem

[Brian A. <br...@ta...>]

Micah Yoder wrote:
> 
> > grep slash | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9
> >
> > That normally solves it for me :)
> >       -Brian
> 
> uhh... first of all what are you grepping?
slash (aka the daemon that is running). 
> Second, I *did* kill -9 the slashd process, several times.  And it's still
> running!
Right now the above awk piece works for me.

> And why is every process that accesses the log directory turning into a D?
Not sure to be honest. This is happening with me on RedHat 7.1, but not
6.2.  

	-Brian

[Slashcode-general] newbie question

[Nomad M. L. <er...@no...>]

OK,

After much fighting, and manual reading, I got slash to install. But when
I hit the site, all I get is a blank page. The source of which reads:


<!-- start template: ID , header;; -->

<!-- end template: ID , header;; -->

<!-- start template: ID , index;; -->

<!-- end template: ID , index;; -->

and that's it.
Nothing else.

Can anyone clue me into where I should start in trying to fix this?

Thanks.

--Eric

Re: [Slashcode-general] Slashd problem

[Micah Y. <yo...@ho...>]

> grep slash | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9
>
> That normally solves it for me :)
> 	-Brian

uhh... first of all what are you grepping?

Second, I *did* kill -9 the slashd process, several times.  And it's still 
running!

And why is every process that accesses the log directory turning into a D?

Thanks...

Re: [Slashcode-general] Slashd problem

[Brian A. <br...@ta...>]

Micah Yoder wrote:
> Finally got my co-located box for Slash (and other things).  Now, the slashd
> process is pretty much running out of control.  It's in the R state, taking
> 99% of a CPU (there are two).
grep slash | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9 

That normally solves it for me :)
	-Brian

[Slashcode-general] Slashd problem

[Micah Y. <yo...@ho...>]

OK, this is Screwed-Up(tm).

Finally got my co-located box for Slash (and other things).  Now, the slashd 
process is pretty much running out of control.  It's in the R state, taking 
99% of a CPU (there are two).

Now, whenever I try to access anything in the Slash site's log directory 
(containing slashd.log), the process (ls, mc, less, etc.) hangs and is in a D 
state.

Whenever I try to strace any of those processes, the same fate happens to the 
strace process.

I can't kill -9 any of them!!!  I know you can't kill a D process but why not 
the R slashd?

In fact, running reboot, the same thing happened to the shutdown process!  
Aaargh!

It's on an XFS filesystem.  I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

Any ideas for how to get out of this mess?  The box is a 6-hour drive away 
and they charge $25 for power cycling, so I'd only want to use that as a last 
resort.

Thanks,
Micah

Re: [Slashcode-general] Fortune/MOTD Slash 2.0.0

[Alessio B. <al...@al...>]

tra...@hu... wrote:

> Question is, what is the proper way to get this function working?

There is also a thread on this same subject at
<http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/07/2233222>

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[Slashcode-general] Fortune/MOTD Slash 2.0.0

[<tra...@hu...>]

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As everyone probably knows, Slash 2.0.0 just has "Bite my shiny metal ass! 
-- Bender" hardcoded for the MOTD template.  After seeing this and reading 
the comments in that particular template, I'm assuming that for whatever 
reason, the Fortune/MOTD function is not operational upon the initial install.

Question is, what is the proper way to get this function working?

I've messed around with setting it up as a Block as the comments hint at,
 but can't figure out how to get that displayed in the index page when not 
logged in as an Admin.

So, I tried setting it up as a variable (motd) and had Slashd update that 
field in the 'vars' table with the following code:

        sub newmotd {
                return unless -x '/usr/games/fortune';
                chomp(my $t = `/usr/games/fortune -s`);
                $slashdb->setVar('motd', $t);
        }

I've edited the footer templates to:

        [% constants.motd %]

instead of

        [% INCLUDE motd %]

since it should be getting the text from the var motd instead of the template.

The field in the 'vars' table gets updated just fine when Slashd runs the 
code, but the index page doesn't get updated unless I stop and restart Slash 
AND Apache.

Another question I suppose is is this a good way of doing it?  Or is there 
a better way?

Any words of wisdom will be appreciated.

Thanks.

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Re: [Slashcode-general] slashd

[Alessio B. <al...@al...>]

ant...@sp... wrote:

slasd never got installed anywhere. The only place is in
/slash-2.0.0/utils/slash 

Check /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d/init.d

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[Slashcode-general] slashd

[<ant...@sp...>]

I am in the process of installing slash 2.0 for the first time. My current problem is this: It seems that the slash script that starts slasd never got installed anywhere. The only place is in /slash-2.0.0/utils/slash and when I try to run that file I get this error:

   # /slash-2.0.0/utils/slash start
   Starting slashd slashvu: ok PID = 38360 
   # su: no directory
   # 

and that's it. So I guess my question is how do I configure that file so that it will start slashd correctly? 

Thanks in advance!

Re: [Slashcode-general] Moderating question

[Nathan V. <na...@th...>]

You'll need to dive into the code... most likely in Slash.pm.  You could
just turn off the display of the delete checkbox for that author...

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Drew Smith wrote:

>
> 	Hey folks,
>
> 	Quick one - one of my authors has been deleting posts instead of
> moderating them - I've asked him a few times not to, but he's
> continuing.  Removing his authors' privileges is not an option - how can
> I remove his ability to delete posts?
>
> 	I'm running Slash v.1.0.2, I think - I know, I need to upgrade, but
> it's working flawlessly and I simply haven't had the time! ;)
>
> 	Thanks in advance, and after over one year of running slashcode, thanks
> for a great product!
>
> 	Cheers,
> 	- Drew.
>
> --
> Drew Smith, UNIX Network Administrator
> Pacific Corporate Trust Company, Vancouver
>
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